where do the griswolds live

The Griswold family from the National Lampoon’s Vacation movies canonically live in a fictional suburb of Chicago, Illinois, often described simply as being in the Chicago area.

Where the Griswolds “live”

• In the films, Clark Griswold and his family are said to live in a Chicago suburb, not in the city itself.

• The suburb is never given a precise real-world name on screen, but it fits the pattern of John Hughes’ Chicago-area suburban settings.

The actual house used

• The iconic Griswold house exterior is a backlot set located on the Warner Bros. Ranch in Burbank, California, reused in multiple productions.

• So while the story places them in suburban Chicago, the filming location for the neighborhood is Southern California.

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